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\chapter*{Author's Biography}
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\section*{Reut Tsarfaty}

\textbf{Reut Tsarfaty} is a researcher at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
She receivedher Ph.D. (2010) and MSc. (2005) from the institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, and her B.Sc. from the ComputerScience department at the Technion,   Israel Institute of Technology (2002). She is a recipient of the  Mosaiec fellowship  (2006--2010) from the dutch science foundation (NWO), and she held  postdoc fellowships at the Linguistics department at Uppsala University and at the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics department at the Weizmann Institute. Her research focuses on statistical models for syntactic and semantic structure prediction, with emphasis on  parsing    morphologically rich languages (PMRL). % and evaluation   for linguistic structure prediction. 
Her first publication on PMRL, "Integrated morohological and syntactic disambiguation for Modern Hebrew"  won the FoLLI best paper award (ESSLLI 2006), and she  authored   key publications on the topic since. She is a co-founder of the SPMRL community and  serves as a PC chair on the SPMRL workshop series,  guest editor of the PMRL special issue   of the Computational Linguistic Journal,  organizer of  the  1st PMRL shared task, and as the secretary of the ACL Special Interest Group on Semitic Languages.